Memorial works
Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband
AFTER? HILLS & SAUNDERS (1852 TO DATE)
The Queen's Bedroom, Windsor Castle
copy of a photograph of c. 1873Albumen print | 6.3 x 7.9 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2418589
Photograph of Queen Victoria's Bedroom, in the Private Apartments, Windsor Castle. In the room there is a half-tester bed with a knitted square blanket on top, a bedside cabinet with a bell, and a sofa with cushions at the foot of the bed that is partially obscured. A cross and pictures hang on the wall, one of which is a portrait of Princess Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg (1797-1862) by Cordon (RCIN 407130). There is an open door with view into the next room on the left of the photograph.
The photograph is in an envelope marked 'One Set of Rooms - (Reduced)'.
The photograph is in an envelope marked 'One Set of Rooms - (Reduced)'.
Creator(s)
After? Hills & Saunders (1852 to date) (photographer) [After a work possibly attributed to Hills & Saunders]
6.3 x 7.9 cm (whole object)
A label on a brass tablet (RCIN 55344) suggests that the photograph was 'always placed on the Queen's writing table'
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Berkshire [England]
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Windsor Castle
- Interiors of Windsor Castle
- Upper Ward [Windsor Castle]
- Private Apartments [Windsor Castle]
- Queen's Bed Room [Private Apartments, Windsor Castle]
- Private Apartments [Windsor Castle]
- Windsor Castle
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Berkshire [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Home economics
- The Home
- Bedrooms
- Furniture & accessories
- Beds
- Cabinets (furniture)
- Seating. Chairs
- Seats
- Cushions
- Mending of Clothes at home
- Knitting
- The Home
- Home economics
- Places
